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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (41086)	8/22/2005 9:10:57 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

IOW, you have absolutely no answer as to what has changed. An entire year went by that you missed. Are you really asking me to recap the last 15 months of changes? How about if I give you a few hints? 15 months of: US, coalition and Iraqi deaths. The Downing Street memos. Changing public opinion on the justification for the Iraq War. Changing public opinion on the progress in Iraq. The US won't allow an Islamic state [Rumsfeld]; now we pressure the Kurds to accept some sort of an Islamic state. $Bs missing from the Iraqi construction fund. Sole source contracts to Halliburton. High unemployment in Iraq. Iraq infrastructure is in shambles; spotty potable water supply; spotty electricity; spotty oil supply. The morgue in Baghdad is overwhelmed with bodies; they stack them up on top of each other. Malnutrition rates are higher now then they were when Saddam was there. We can't defeat the insurgency; only Iraqis can; losing is not an option. The insurgency is in it's final throes or maybe it isn't. CIA says Iraq is a training ground for terrorists. A US general says that for every insurgent we kill, there are three more that get created. Only a fraction of the Iraqi police/military can operate independently of US Forces. Several members of the Coalition of the Willing have gotten out of Iraq. The Shia, Kurds and Sunnis can barely agree on what the name of the country should be. A war that was supposed to cost $4B is over $200B. So why did Casey go to Iraq? Perhaps to find them thar weapons of mass destruction? Maybe they're in Syria? But the Bush Administration doesn't care if they are in Syria, i.e., they're not doing anything about it.... And to boot...your question doesn't really matter. Cindy Sheehan's perception of the war and Bush has changed. She can ask for [or demand] another meeting with Bush and he can accept or reject it. I don't have a problem either way. It's a lose-lose for Bush. jttmab